On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:28:19PM +0000, Raffi Khatchadourian wrote: > On Tue 29.Jan'08 at 23:10:54 +0100, Steve S wrote: >> Default values are the ones mentioned in the manual: $timeout=600, >> $mail_check=5. I played with them by setting them to small values for >> testing: >> >> $timeout=10, $mail_check=5 or $timeout=60, $mail_check=30 >> >> but the 'N' flag just won't appear automatically if the browser is >> focused all the time. >> >> Would it help posting my .muttrc? I suspect either a stupid >> newbie-related misconfig or an issue with my Debian mutt version (since >> I saw they include some patches on their own which are not in the >> official mutt tree). > > I have a similar configuration, and now that I have taken a better look, > I basically have the same problem. I haven't noticed it since I use the > sidebar patch. Anyway, I wonder if there are some consistency issues > between the values stored in timeout and mail_check that could be > causing the problem.
Hmm, so can other people confirm this or does nearly everybody have mutt working as expected? s.
